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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI-600034 M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION-CHEMISTRY FIRST SEMESTER–NOVEMBER 2015 CH-1814: QUANTUM CHEMISTRY AND GROUP THEORY Date : 07/11/2015 Time : 01:00-04:00 Answer ALL questions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Max: 100 Marks Part-A (10 × 2 = 20) Determine whether the following functions are odd or even. Justify your answer. (i) (ii) Rigel, the brightest star in constellation Orion, has approximately a blackbody radiation spectrum with a maximum wave length of 145 nm. Estimate the surface temperature of Rigel. What is quantum mechanical tunneling? Show that the eigenvalues of Hermitian operators are real. Obtain the ground state atomic term symbol for carbon. State variation principle. Mention its significance. Mention any two point groups that obey mutual exclusion principle. Why is a molecular plane always identified to form a class by itself? Mention the significance of Secular determinant. Write down the Hamiltonian for Hydrogen molecular ion. Answer any EIGHT questions. 11. 12. 13. Dept. Part-B (8 × 5 = 40) Convert the Cartesian coordinate (-1,1,-√2) into spherical polar coordinates. Derive time independent Schrodinger wave equation from time dependent equation. The force constant for H79Br is 392 Nm-1. Calculate the fundamental vibrational frequency and zero point energy of H79Br. Use the method of separation of variables to break up Schrodinger equation for a rigid rotor into ordinary angular equations and write the solutions for each. Show that for a 1s orbital of a hydrogen like ion, the most probable distance from the nucleus to electron is ao/Z. State Pauli’s antisymmetric principle and illustrate it for the ground state of helium atom. Evaluate the commutator for angular momentum components Lx and Lz. Classify the symmetry operations of i) NH3 ii) H3BO3. How will you arrive at the matrix representation for Sn operation? What are the features that distinguish the Huckel method from other LCAO methods? A molecule is found to have 5 classes of 8 symmetry operations. Work out the number and the dimensionality of the irreducible representations. What are coulomb and exchange integrals? How are they obtained? Part-C Answer any FOUR questions. (4 × 10 = 40) 23a. Explain the postulates of quantum mechanics. / b. Show that the wave function, ѱ = Ô=− + is an eigenfunction of the operator, (6+4) and find the eigenvalue. 24a. Derive the wave function and energy for a particle in a rectangular three dimensional box. b. Determine the wave length of light absorbed when an electron in a linear molecule of 11.8 Å long makes a transition from the energy level, n = 1 to n = 2. (7+3) 25a. Evaluate the first order correction to the energy term when an electric field of strength ‘F’ is applied to a particle in a one dimensional box of length ‘l’. b. Draw the radial distribution plot for 3d and 4s orbitals of H-atom and indicate the nodes. (8+2) 26a. Outline the construction of the character table for C3v point group. b. Find the Huckel molecular orbitals and energies for allyl radical. (6+4) 27. How is the energy of the orbitals of hydrogen molecular ion determined through energy and overlap integrals? 28a. Prove that one of the operations of the symmetry element S 6 corresponds to C3 axis independently. b. Predict the Mulliken symbols for the irreducible representations T1, T2, T3 in the D3 character table shown below. (4+6) D3 E 2C3 (z) 3C'2 T1 +1 +1 +1 - x2+y2, z2 T2 +1 +1 -1 z, Rz - T3 +2 -1 0 (x, y) (Rx, Ry) (x2-y2, xy) (xz, yz) *************